Reframing Africa - Restructuring the self

The Wits History Workshop and the Wits School of Arts Film & Television Division will host this two-day event.

Following on from last year's successful Reframing Africa this year's four major themes are conceived as exercises in thinking about the question of restructuring the self as part of a decolonising project using the archive as a resource.

Examining the cinema archive to understand Africans' encounters with modernity and their roles in shaping it

Africans as agents of their own destinies. Attempts by African filmmakers to reclaim and reconstitute African subjectivities on their own historical and cultural terms.

How do we reclaim the archive even if it was not made with us in mind? Exploring the ways African filmmakers have or are repurposing the archive.

Reclaiming the archive for transformed pedagogies. The development of courses/or post-graduate degrees in film preservation practices at African universities. Integrating archive studies into the curriculum of film and media programmes as well as disciplines in the Humanities and Social Sciences.

20 OCTOBER

14:00 - 14:30 - Coffee & Registration

14:30 - 14:40 - Welcome

14:40 - 15:50 - On the Coming of the Time of the Untimely: Towards the Emergence of Film - Archival Studies in Africa by Aboubakar Sanogo. Chair: Pervaiz Khan

15:50 - 17:00 - The Journey Through The Lens of The Photojournalist Nkululeko Khumalo Recollection of The Past by Vincent Moloi